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VADIM FEDOROVICH RYNDIN (RUSSIAN 1902-1974) Costume Design, 1927 gouache and pencil on paper 29 x 20.5 cm (11 1/2 x 8 in.) signed and dated lower right
PROVENANCE Acquired from the estate of the artist
LOT NOTES Vadim Ryndin was a Soviet costume and stage designer. Ryndin attended the Free Arts and Technical Studios in Voronezh from 1918 to 1922 and the State Higher Arts and Technical Studios (Vkhutemas) in Moscow from 1922 to 1924. He was a member of Makovets, the Society of Moscow Artists, the Four Arts, and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. In 1965 he joined the faculty of the V. I. Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Ryndin worked in several Moscow theaters. Beginning in 1925 he worked in the Kamernyi theater; he was the theater`s principal designer from 1931 to 1934. He also was principal designer at the Vakhtangov Theater (1935-1944, 1947-1958), the Moscow Dramatic Theater (1944-1947), and the Bolshoi Theater (from 1953).